Powerhouse Consulting Group LLC

Powerhouse Consulting Group LLC, a minority-owned limited liability company headquartered in Ellicott City, Maryland, specializes in advanced materials research and development for defense applications. The firm has been registered in SAM.gov since August 2015 and is classified as a small business by size standard, with expertise spanning chemical and biological threat protection technologies, sensor systems, high-power microwave applications, and tunable dielectric materials. Powerhouse Consulting Group serves as a strategic partner to the U.S. Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research, delivering specialized technical solutions that address critical defense and national security requirements.

Through its prime federal contract awards, Powerhouse Consulting Group has demonstrated substantial expertise in providing 2D melanin coatings for chemical warfare agent protection and advanced antenna systems. The firm has received multiple purchase orders from the Office of Naval Research totaling approximately $399,660 for 2D melanin coating services and support, with individual awards ranging from $40,000 to $88,000 across contracts issued between June 2023 and September 2025. These melanin coating contracts were issued under simplified acquisition procedures without set-aside designations, with the exception of one Total Small Business set-aside award valued at $90,919.20 issued in September 2022. Additionally, Powerhouse received a substantial $829,510 firm-fixed-price definitive contract from the Office of Naval Research in June 2024 for a 30-month program to simulate, design, fabricate, and test a scanning phased array antenna system optimized for high-power, ultra-wideband applications, with expected completion by December 2026. The firm has also served as a subcontractor to Leidos, Inc., providing procured goods and services beginning in February 2025 in support of contract statements of work. All of these contract awards reflect the Navy's confidence in Powerhouse's specialized capabilities and its ability to deliver innovative solutions for advanced defense systems.

Through its federal grant portfolio, Powerhouse Consulting Group has engaged in fundamental and applied research initiatives sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. The firm received a project grant awarded on August 1, 2022, focused on the implementation of tunable dielectric and multiferroic materials for high-power microwave applications, with performance extending through March 31, 2024. Additionally, Powerhouse participated as a sub-grantee under Brown University's federal grant award issued on December 22, 2022, which represents interdisciplinary fundamental research on chemical and biological protection utilizing textured two-dimensional material films. This sub-grant work involved designing, developing, and testing flexible and stretchable barriers for protective gloves and surface coatings that achieve chemical agent repellency while improving user mobility and thermal management compared to current technologies. The Brown University grant project incorporated innovative concepts including intrinsically breathable 2D material barrier coatings, compressive micro-texturing with programmed unfolding capabilities, and fluorine-free hydrophobic molecular segment grafting to create super-hydrophobic outer surfaces capable of repelling chemical and biological agents arriving as liquid droplets. These grant awards underscore Powerhouse's role as a research and development partner advancing next-generation protective materials and high-power RF technologies for the Department of the Navy.